MBM Smackdown 2008

I have the sorest throat ever (most sore throat?) but guess what?  I’m in a good mood!  This is very rare, as usually when I don’t feel well physically I get all upset mentally and rage – ‘why did this happen to me???’.  yup, even when I get a cold.  But today I am completely upbeat.  I’m feeling confident, making plans, ready to take on the world.  I think this is partially due to the fact that people have been very kind to me the past few days.  Ravelry people, people I bump into in real life, and of course my family.  I’m just drowning in good advice. 

My knitting is not going so well.  The black yarn for the macho socks I’m knitting for my husband had a giant knot.  Right in the middle of the instep.  So I cut it out and continued.  Then SOMEHOW the end disappeared and the stiches started to unravel rows back and now it’s a category 5 hurricane of a disaster.  I’m not very good at fixing knitting mistakes yet, but I’ve tackled a few bad ones with successful results.  I had to put this one aside and hopefully I’ll be feeling like spiderman soon and fix it up so I can continue! 

I’m dying to start a new project, but I need to either buy new yarn or figure out a pattern I want to do that uses yarn I have.  I want to buy some new yarn and start the tanktop for my sister (and maybe one for me too!) but there are some problems.  First, I can’t even stand to go to the lys closest to my house.  It’s nice, but small, dark and crowded, and I become SO claustophobic that I have to leave right away, and the owners always glare at me, but seriously, I feel like I’m about to pass out every time I go in there and even the glory of the yarn can’t keep me there.  SO, I’m thinking of ordering some yarn online, which I have never done, but I can’t decide on which one…. especially without feeling it.   I might try going to some other knitting stores, maybe I can stay long enough to pick out something, but even the bigger yarn stores have been driving me crazy lately.   Who knows what will happen tomorrow?